Hi,
We should think about supporting prefab structs in Guile. For more
details, see:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/define-struct.html?q=prefab#%28part._prefab-struct%29
http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/structures.html?q=record&q=structs&q=records#(tech._prefab)
The reason is that
() Andy Wingo
() Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:00:17 +0200
For more details, see:
[...]
See also (info "(elisp) Byte Packing")
which describes Emacs' bindat.el.
The context there is network protocols,
but the design requirements are the same.
On Thu 05 Jul 2012 15:42, Thien-Thi Nguyen writes:
> See also (info "(elisp) Byte Packing")
> which describes Emacs' bindat.el.
>
> The context there is network protocols,
> but the design requirements are the same.
Interesting. The use cases are a bit different though; much of bindat
seems to
Hi,
Andy Wingo skribis:
> On Tue 03 Jul 2012 23:47, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> This should be fixed. Otherwise it's impossible to document in any
>>> sane fashion.
>>>
>>> Suggestion: change scm_to_pointer to SCM_POINTER_VALUE. WDYT?
>>
>> I’m happy with this change. Mark?
>
Hello,
Andy Wingo skribis:
> Then you would modify the reader to call out to (ice-9 prefab) with
> the list after #s, e.g. the (foo ...) in #s(foo ...). (ice-9 prefab)
> would return the record, creating the RTD if needed.
The problem with this is that one could precisely forge instances of
On Thu 05 Jul 2012 22:57, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo skribis:
>
>> Then you would modify the reader to call out to (ice-9 prefab) with
>> the list after #s, e.g. the (foo ...) in #s(foo ...). (ice-9 prefab)
>> would return the record, creating the RTD if needed.
>
> Th
Hi,
Andy Wingo skribis:
> Since the expression reader can generate prefab instances, they are
> useful when convenient serialization is more important than
> abstraction. Opaque and transparent structures also can be serialized,
> however, if they are defined with define-serializable-str
On Thu 05 Jul 2012 23:55, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> So I’d be in the ‘define-serializable-struct’ camp, so to speak.
That's a valid position to have in general. I can also imagine cases in
which you would choose other things. It's a spectrum.
> Prefabs raise an number of interes
On Thu 05 Jul 2012 23:55, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo skribis:
>
>> Since the expression reader can generate prefab instances, they are
>> useful when convenient serialization is more important than
>> abstraction. Opaque and transparent structures also can be serial
Hi,
Andy Wingo skribis:
> On Thu 05 Jul 2012 23:55, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> So I’d be in the ‘define-serializable-struct’ camp, so to speak.
>
> That's a valid position to have in general. I can also imagine cases in
> which you would choose other things. It's a spectrum.
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